Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago

• evenmoreutils

  3 83 10.0 C

  A collection of command line tools to extend the shell environment.

Long time ago, a colleague of mine created "evenmoreutils" : https://github.com/rudymatela/evenmoreutils

• fstring

  2 3 10.0 Shell

  Make searching for text strings easier on Linux :)

here's a little wrapper around i made around "find" which i always have to install on every new box i manage ....

https://github.com/figital/fstring

(just shows you more useful details about what is found)

• InfluxDB

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• moreutils

  19 2 0.0 Shell

  moreutils is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young. Read-only version of `git://git.joeyh.name/moreutils`

Depends on your editor i suppose, but vipe checks the exit code of it [1]. In vim you can exit with an error using :cq

[1]: https://github.com/pgdr/moreutils/blob/f4a811d0a1fafb3d7b0e7...

• dmd

  148 2,893 9.9 D

  dmd D Programming Language compiler

  

• ack3

  21 673 4.3 Perl

  ack is a grep-like search tool optimized for source code.

  

My favorite missing tool of all time is `ack` [0]. It's grep if grep were made now. I use it all the time, and it's the first thing I install on a new system.

[0] https://beyondgrep.com

• atomicxt

  1 0 10.0 Go

mv can't, or, more correctly the rename system call can not.

rename is an atomic operation from any modern filesystem's perspective, you're not writing new data, you're simply changing the name of the existing file, it either succeeds or fails.

Keep in mind that if you're doing this, mv (the command line tool) as opposed to the `rename` system call, falls back to copying if the source and destination files are on different filesystems since you can not really mv a file across filesystems!

In order to have truly atomic writes you need to:

open a new file on the same filesystem as your destination file

write contents

call fsync

call rename

call sync (if you care about the file rename itself never being reverted).

This is some very naive golang code (from when I barely new golang) for doing this which has been running in production since I wrote it without a single issue: https://github.com/AdamJacobMuller/atomicxt/blob/master/file...

• the_silver_searcher

  59 25,754 0.0 C

  A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

What about the Silver Searcher? It's even faster than ack

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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• ripgrep

  348 45,156 9.3 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

What about ripgrep? It's even faster than the Silver Searcher

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

• miller

  63 8,571 9.0 Go

  Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

The absolute number one Unix tool that should have - and, more to the point, COULD have - been written long ago is mlr.

https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

"Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON."

This should have been part of the standard unix toolkit for the last 40 years.

• whomst

  1 2 0.0 JavaScript

  Gets user and group info, by any means necessary

I tried to prototype my own implementation of `vidir` in Node.JS a while back (not realizing that it existed under this name in moreutils), and I ended up getting derailed after realizing how incomplete Node.JS's support was for getting the group / username corresponding to a G/UID: https://github.com/stuartpb/whomst

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